Waistband-lining for trousers.



A. A. BROWN. WAISTBAND LINING FOR TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24,1913.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

INVENTOR WITNESSES 1% mm M ATTORNEYS 50 employed to desi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM: .A. BROWN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB TO A. L. PALMER 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., CORPORATION.

WAISTBAND-LIN IN G FOR TROUSERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application med June 24, 1913. Serial in. 775,469.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAHAM A. BRowN, L

asubject of the Czar of Russia, and a residentof the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have proved Waistband-Lining for Trousers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. V l

At the present time thellnlngs for the waists of trousers are sewed to the garments by hand. This is objectionable for various reasons. In thefirst place it necessitates each manufacturer placing out the work among large numbers of seamstresses who do the work at their homes, often in unsanitary environments. This method of ClIS- tributing the work entails a more or less complicated system of accounts and places the manufacturers under the dependence of a class of help that is largely unreliable, and, furthermore, the prlce per garment for the sewing in of the Waistband linlngs is considerable, considering the nature of the work.

The object of the present ll'lVBl'ltlOIt s to overcome these difiiculties by sewing linings to trousers entirely by machine, thus doing away with the necessity of placing the work 80 outside the factory, in numerous homes, as

is now the custom, as the work can be done entirely in the factory at a greatly reduced cost. These advantages accrue from a novel construction of waistband lining which can 85 be easily and quickly made and attached to the garment and at the same tlmepresent a neater appearance than do the waistbands which have heretofore been sewed to the trousers by hand.

With these objects in view, and others as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described herein- 45 after and set forth with particularlty m the claims appended hereto.

' the accom an ing drawin which illustrate one em odiment of the mvention, and wherein similar reference characters are gnate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views, F lgure 1 1s a perspective view of the waist portion of a air of trousers with the improved wa1sthand lining applied thereto, a portion of the lining being broken away to illustrate invented a new and Im the detailsof construction; Fig. 2 is a perspective. view of one section of the lining before'zthesame is completely folded, a p ,lIlOIl ofthe said section being broken away Flg. 3 is a detail sectional view showing the rst stepin attaching the lining to the waist portion of the trousers; Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the next step of securing the lining; Fig. 5 is a view showing the lining in its final condition; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of a slightly modifiie ddform of lining before the same is app ie Referring to .the drawing, A designates t e upper portion of a pair of .trousers which is provided with a Waistband lining B which is preferably made in two sections 1 and 1 in the usual manner, each section extending from the middle of the back to the front of the trousers. Each section of the Waistband consists, as shown in Fig. 2, of a strip 2 of stiffening material, such as buckram or the like, which gives stiffness to the waistband of the trousers, this strip being any desired width; and attached to the kram reinforce 2 is a strip of lining material 3 which has one edge overlying one edge of the buckram strip and secured there- -to by a row of stitching 4, as shown in Fig. he major portion of the lining material 3 extends beyond the buckram strip 2 and is folded on longitudinal lines 5, 6 and 7 in at the parts 8 9 and 10 will clearly shown in Fig. 3. portion 10 of the lining projects beyond the edge 12 of the buckram when the lining strip 3 is folded, and this edge. 11 is presented to the edge 12' of the trousers A, and the lining is stitched of stitching 13, Fig. 3, the the outside of the trousers. The lining is next turned inwardly to a position within the trousers by folding the edge of the trousers just below the seam formed by the stitching 13 until the lining is in the osition shown in Fig. 4. The fastening o the lining at the top edge by the stitches 13 is not sufiicient to bind the linin in place and therefore a second row of stitc ing 14 is ems the lower portion of the linployed to secure ing to the trousers. This row of stitching is located in the ortlon 9 of the lining material close to t e line of fold 6, Fi 2, and by the in order to do this the flap forme lining being on parts 9 shown in Fig. 1, but concealed from the 1nside by being covered by the flap formed by the folded p0rti0-ns9 and 10 of the lining material, as it will be understood that this flap will be folded down from the position shown in' Fig. 4 tothat shown in Fig. 5 after the row of stitching 14 is made.

' It is to be understood that the row of stitching 13 by which the lining is first attached to the arment is made by a sewing machine, but t is row of stitching is completely concealed by the turning of the lining from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 4, so that from the inside of the trousers no stitching securing the lining in place is revealed. I

In Fig.2 the lining material 3 is shown as one piece, but it is to be understood that it can be made of two pieces 3" and 3", as shown in Fig.6, joined together at 3 by a row of stitching 3 after a piece 3" has been first sewed to the buckram strip 2 by a row of stitching 3 From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and method of operation and of the device shown will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and

that such changes may be made when de-' sired as are within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A trouser band lining comprising a stiffening strip and a lacing or facing strip completely covering ing strip, the lining strip having its lower edge turned under the corresponding edge of the stiffening strip and its other edge free from and extending beyond the opposite edge of the stiffening strip to form an extension adapted to be sewed to the trousers, and a hanging plait provided in the lining strip midway of its edges and adapted to fold over and cover a row of stitching passing through the lining and stifiening strips an trousers.

2. The combination of a waist a pair of trousers, a lining strip having one edge secured to the trousers and turned inwardly, a stifi'ening strip disposed under the lining strip and completely covered thereby and having its lower edge enveloped by the lining strip, and a horizontal ing passing through the lining substantially midway between its upper and lower edges and through the trousers, said lining strip being formed with a longitudinal fia or plait integral therewith andhanging" own over the said stitching to cover the same.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence 0 two subscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM A. BROWN.

Witnesses Vmonuzo Pn'rnomo, FRANK J. Brown.

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